The most powerful exploding stars are popping up in unexpected places, new research indicates. It turns out that these super-bright “rebel” supernovas can form in “heavy metal” areas, using elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, scientists said in the new study.

Australian scientists at the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) ordered a review of temperature recording instruments after the government agency was caught tampering with temperature logs in several locations.

US government scientists work hard to protect the public. Some researchers study infectious diseases and effective treatments. Others ensure that drugs, food, vehicles, or consumer products live up to their claims and don’t harm anyone.

A growing number of researchers think that the sun is actually larger than commonly thought.

Scientists don’t know the sun’s size as precisely as the details of the Earth and moon, making it a sticking point for perplexed eclipse modelers.

Toto has never seen cool weather like this in August before. He is more used to the Dust Bowl and tornadoes.

Scientists have found a surprise algae species growing in Wisconsin lakes, a species most thought was existent from the Americas.

Just over the North Atlantic Ocean from the United States lies a geophysical threat that may be close to unleashing hell on Earth. It is Iceland’s dangerous Katla volcano.

David Shukman has been to Greenland to look at algae:

Scientists are “very worried” that the melting of the Greenland ice sheet could accelerate and raise sea levels more than expected.

A so-called seismic zone off the coast of Alaska could trigger deadly tsunamis like the one that caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011, a new study finds.

Adults in the UK who have poor sleep patterns are more likely to be overweight and obese and have poorer metabolic health, according to a new study.

The possibility of alien life on the icy planets and moons in our Solar System could be lower than previously thought, because any water on them will quickly vaporize, according to a new study in Nature Geoscience.

The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for July 2017 was +0.28 deg. C, up a little from the June 2017 value of +0.21 deg. C (click for full-size version):

Jupiter is indeed the largest planet in the solar system, weighing more than twice the mass of all the other planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and more combined.

However, because it’s so dauntingly massive, Jupiter does not technically orbit the sun.

“It’s never been harder to be a climate scientist,” claims a heartrending piece in the New Republic.

Climate scientists working directly for the Trump administration are the most affected. A report published last week by the Union of Concerned Scientists describes a “culture of fear” as government scientists are gagged, sidelined, or fired, and funding cuts loom. “Some are afraid to utter the words ‘climate change,’” the report reads.

But wait. You haven’t got to the saddest part, yet.

CNN flooded its front page with “grim” global warming coverage ahead of the network’s so-called “climate crisis” with former Vice President Al Gore set for Tuesday.

The Arctic, Antarctica, Greenland: They all feature prominently in the climate change scare stories. According to the dominant alarmist meme, human greenhouse gases are causing unusual global warming which is (or should be at least) causing the polar ice caps to melt, dramatically raising sea levels.

There are multiple problems with this narrative of which I want to address three specific claims about the ice in the Arctic, Antarctica, and Greenland.